Republican Party members take power to new extremes
Two weeks ago, a friend was conversing with me about politics. Although notably enraged at current political affairs, he was still thinking coherently and after an expletive or two, he commented, "Andrew, those Republicans are using the government to destroy the government."At first, I was just glad to hear him talk about something new (he had previously been carefully and unsuccessfully explaining the reasons why I needed to apologize publicly for supporting the military intervention in Iraq). However, my friend is indeed correct: Recently the Republicans in office, using unprecedented tactics in unforeseen ways, have specifically undermined our traditional democratic processes - manipulating the power afforded to them by these same democratic processes.
